Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA

Salary: $190,000–$220,000 annually for positions in Connecticut and New York.

Company

hirify.global provides financial data, analytics, and software solutions to investment professionals and financial institutions worldwide.

What you will do

• Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and availability of production systems and services.
• Respond to incidents, participate in on-call support, and conduct blameless post-mortems.
• Define and track Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to build reliability into services.
• Design automation that reduces operational toil and improves efficiency.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, system documentation, and runbooks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience ensuring system and service reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience required, including deployment, management, troubleshooting, cluster administration, networking, storage, and security.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress, plus experience with Helm.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD tooling, monitoring and observability, infrastructure as code, configuration management, and programming or scripting.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant field.
• Strong analytical, communication, troubleshooting, automation, and incident-response skills.

Nice to have

• Open-source contribution experience.
• Familiarity with SRE principles from the Google SRE handbook.
• Previous DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment.
• Blameless culture focused on continuous learning and improvement.
• Collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
• Employment with a company serving more than 200,000 investment professionals worldwide.